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TIL that Irena Sendler, a nurse who secretly rescued 2500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust, and was viciously beaten by the Gestapo for her actions, was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 2007, the year it was awarded to Al Gore.

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